Monday, August 26 @ 6:30pm
Book Talk @ Books & Books, Coral Gables
Henry Green, Professor of Religious Studies
Sephardi Voices: The Untold Expulsion of Jews from Arab Lands, by Henry Green & Richard Stursberg
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Join us at Books & Books in Coral Gables for an evening program about:
Sephardi Voices: The Untold Expulsion of Jews from Arab Lands by Henry Green & Richard Stursberg.
In the decades following the founding of Israel, close to a million Jews were forced from their ancestral homelands in the Middle East, North Africa, and Iran. This story of state-sanctioned discrimination, violence, and political unrest is told with stunning photography and gripping first-hand accounts from survivors. They tell of violent persecution and daring midnight airlifts—but also of a world left behind, and new lives in new lands. This is a story of Jewish history, of a resilient people finding strength in the face of terrible injustice.
Henry Green is Professor of Religious Studies and the former Director of Judaic and Sephardic Studies at the University of Miami, Florida. He is the Founding Director of MOSAIC: the Jewish Museum of Florida, and of Sephardi Voices, an audiovisual digital archive of Arab Jews. He has served as a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and has given testimony to the Congressional Human Rights Caucus in the United States as an advocate for the rights of those displaced. Professor Green is the author or co-author of four books, including Research in Action (education of at-risk populations in Israel); The Economic and Social Origins of Gnosticism (Jewish origins from a sociological perspective); Mosaic: Jewish Life in Florida; and Gesher Vakesher, Bridges and Bonds: The Life of Leon Kronish (the Israelization of American Jewry and the story of Jewish Miami) and many articles. Currently, Professor Green is the International Director of Sephardi Voices. The project’s mission is to record, document and preserve the memories of Sephardi/Mizrahi Jews, to make them digitally accessible similar to the Shoah/Holocaust project, and to immortalize the legacy that stretches back to the prophet Jeremiah, the writings of the Talmud and Maimonides.
